Substacks recommended by Mark R DeLong

Recommended by Mark R DeLong

Shell Game

By Evan Ratliff

A podcast and newsletter about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff.

The Absent-Minded Professor

By Josh Brake

Technology, education, and human flourishing. All through the lens of a prototyping mindset.

Spill the GPTea

By Brinnae Bent

A weekly newsletter with the latest in AI.

Dr. Bent tamps down shouty hype about LLMs and AI generally with solid information on new AI research and developments every week. Concise and digestible, too!

- Mark R DeLong

Dear Reader, I'm lost

By Rebecca Holden

Letters from a writer navigating the world with absolutely no sense of direction.

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

By Terry Freedman

Reflections on literature * Musings on everyday life * Book reviews * Experiments in creative nonfiction writing * Humour

The Biblioracle Recommends

By John Warner

Weekly essays on reading the world and reading in the world, plus personalized book recommendations based on the last five books you've read.

MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

By Miller’s Book Review 📚

Celebrating All Things Literary

Auraist. The best writers on Substack.

By Sean

Trusted by 50K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Auraist offers readers well chosen samples of fine prose—fiction and non-fiction. Rather than merely pronouncing judgment, Auraist has the "receipts," so to speak. It's a way to bring great prose into the light.

- Mark R DeLong

Noted

By Jillian Hess

Tips from the world's best note takers

Jillian Hess plumbs the depths of notebooked scrawls and comes up with compelling insights about inner lives. A wonderful 'stack!

- Mark R DeLong

CAFÉ ANNE

By Anne Kadet

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

Where I live markedly contrasts with where Anne lives, but with every delightful story she makes me an honorary, if distant, New Yorker.

- Mark R DeLong

To Write with Wild Abandon

By Graham Strong

A Substack newsletter that motivates you to overcome your writing fears, build self-confidence as a writer, and have fun with your writing again!

Graham Strong lives up to his name. To Write with Wild Abandon is not just encouragement to overcome fears of pen and paper but also a way to find new delights in writing. We writers need that, too.

- Mark R DeLong

A Swaying Form

By James Mustich

Dispatches on reading, writing, and learning lost and found.

Great writing. Perceptive. Inspiring. What else do you want in a long read?

- Mark R DeLong

Campfire Notebook

By Bryn Robinson

Come gather around the campfire for weekly words and art, heavily spiced with science.

Bryn invites us to sit next to a campfire with her in order to make changes, learn, and enjoy each other. She's especially interested in science communications, and how art might figure in, too.

- Mark R DeLong

Out Over My Skis

By Tom Pendergast

Explorations in the pleasures and perils of getting out over your skis, told through nonfiction essays, photographs, and occasional fiction.

Refined and thoughtful writing on a range of topics, often reflecting on life in Shohomish, Washington, entry point to hiking and climbing adventure.

- Mark R DeLong

Technocomplex

Recommended by Mark R DeLong